Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”

researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

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So far in Outliers, we’ve seen that extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.